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wedge
[ wej ]
noun
- a piece of hard material with two principal faces meeting in a sharply acute angle, for raising, holding, or splitting objects by applying a pounding or driving force, as from a hammer. Compare machine ( def 3b ).
- a piece of anything of like shape:
a wedge of pie.
- a cuneiform character or stroke of this shape.
- Meteorology. (formerly) an elongated area of relatively high pressure.
- something that serves to part, split, divide, etc.:
The quarrel drove a wedge into the party organization.
- Military. (formerly) a tactical formation generally in the form of a V with the point toward the enemy.
- Golf. a club with an iron head the face of which is nearly horizontal, for lofting the ball, especially out of sand traps and high grass.
- Optics. optical wedge.
- Chiefly Coastal Connecticut and Rhode Island. a hero sandwich.
- a wedge heel or shoe with such a heel.
verb (used with object)
- to separate or split with or as if with a wedge (often followed by open, apart, etc.):
to wedge open a log.
- to insert or fix with a wedge.
- to pack or fix tightly:
to wedge clothes into a suitcase.
Synonyms: , , , ,
- to thrust, drive, fix, etc., like a wedge:
He wedged himself through the narrow opening.
- Ceramics. to pound (clay) in order to remove air bubbles.
- to fell or direct the fall of (a tree) by driving wedges into the cut made by the saw.
verb (used without object)
- to force a way like a wedge (usually followed by in, into, through, etc.):
The box won't wedge into such a narrow space.
wedge
/ 飞蓻诲萧 /
noun
- a block of solid material, esp wood or metal, that is shaped like a narrow V in cross section and can be pushed or driven between two objects or parts of an object in order to split or secure them
- any formation, structure, or substance in the shape of a wedge
a wedge of cheese
- something such as an idea, action, etc, that tends to cause division
- a shoe with a wedge heel
- golf a club with a face angle of more than 50掳, used for bunker shots ( sand wedge ) or pitch shots ( pitching wedge )
- a wedge-shaped extension of the high pressure area of an anticyclone, narrower than a ridge
- mountaineering a wedge-shaped device, formerly of wood, now usually of hollow steel, for hammering into a crack to provide an anchor point
- any of the triangular characters used in cuneiform writing
- (formerly) a body of troops formed in a V-shape
- photog a strip of glass coated in such a way that it is clear at one end but becomes progressively more opaque towards the other end: used in making measurements of transmission density
- slang.a bribe
- thin end of the wedgeanything unimportant in itself that implies the start of something much larger
verb
- tr to secure with or as if with a wedge
- to squeeze or be squeezed like a wedge into a narrow space
- tr to force apart or divide with or as if with a wedge
Derived Forms
- 藞飞别诲驳测, adjective
- 藞飞别诲驳别藢濒颈办别, adjective
Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms
- 飞别诲驳别顎僱颈办别顎 adjective
- 耻苍路飞别诲驳别顎 verb (used with object) unwedged unwedging
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of wedge1
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of wedge1
Idioms and Phrases
see thin edge of the wedge .Example Sentences
Critics argue that foreign cash buys influence over American students and wedges open a back door to American intellectual property for foreign governments.
It can be an actual stiletto heel or a wedge.
Amnesty International has said that since the Equality Act protects other minority groups, the case could be the "thin end of the wedge" which could undermine other rights.
He pointed to the example of the Ever Given container ship, which was hit by a gust of wind in the Suez Canal in 2021 and got wedged sideways between the canal banks.
"It was a decent day. My wedge kept me in a good spot," he added.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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